Turned L (Ꞁ ꞁ) is an additional letter which was used in medieval Welsh and in certain phonetic transcriptions used in German dialectology. Its capital form is also homoglyphic with the letter reversed ge.
Usage
Turned L is used by William Pryce in his Cornish grammar Archæologia Cornu-Britannica published in 1790. It represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative /ɬ/ used in Welsh. In this work, Pryce also used the additional letters turned A ⟨Ɐ ɐ⟩, Chi ⟨Χ χ⟩, Insular D ⟨Ꝺ ꝺ⟩, Insular G ⟨Ᵹ ᵹ⟩, turned Insular G ⟨Ꝿ ꝿ⟩, and Insular T ⟨Ꞇ ꞇ⟩.
In German dialectology, in 1922, Walter Steinhauser uses turned l ⟨ꞁ⟩ to represent middle Bavarian l (donaubairische l), a palatal consonant.
Computing codes
Turned L can be represented with the following Unicode characters (Latin Extended-D):
Character information
Preview |
Ꞁ |
ꞁ
|
Unicode name
|
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED L
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LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED L
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Encodings |
decimal |
hex |
dec |
hex
|
Unicode |
42880 |
U+A780 |
42881 |
U+A781
|
UTF-8 |
234 158 128 |
EA 9E 80 |
234 158 129 |
EA 9E 81
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Numeric character reference |
Ꞁ |
Ꞁ |
ꞁ |
ꞁ
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See also
Notes and references
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